From behind bars, Tory Lanez has released new music, but it’s not your standard jail fare.
The rapper who is now incarcerated released two new songs, “Cell 245” and “Wish I Never Met You,” on Friday, July 26, to launch his previously announced Prison Tapes series.
In the first, which begins with an automated message from a prison phone call, Tory is heard reminiscing over a hard-hitting beat on his past misfortune and the rewards of his accomplishment.
He raps, “I’m talking hammers at the crib, I’m talking hammers at my grandma’s house / She in the kitchen cooking, finding hammers in the counters, real steppa. That’s the damage that shootouts did to me, PTSD.”
In the latter, which opens with the same audio clip, Lanez displays a more vulnerable side as he sings over an instrumental with an Afrobeats vibe about becoming caught up in a bad relationship.
He sings on the hook, “It’s not fair, but I wish I never met you in the first place. Why did you have to come kiss me? Why did we have to mix it in the first place? Why did we go ahead and slide into third base? And I wish I’d never met you in the first place.”
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Fans were drawn to the songs’ sound quality despite the fact that they were recorded behind prison walls, not the words or the production.
“This song by Tory Lanez has some truly insane qualities. You really can’t tell he performed this on a prison phone,” a pleasantly surprised listener commented on X (formerly Twitter).
A third admirer remarked, “They gave Tory Lanez a whole studio,” while another asked, “How is Tory Lanez song quality this good from jail[.] he wasn’t lying he cracked the code.”
Tory declared that he had “broken the code” in order to produce studio-quality audio while incarcerated when he first announced his Prison Tapes series earlier this week.
In a call that was recorded and shared on Instagram, he said, “After about 20-something to 30-something fuck-ups and mistakes, me and my engineer have finally figure out how to record music over the jail phone and still keep the quality as professional as I had it on the street.”
It’s finished. I have successfully broken the code, dude. This implies that I will continue to release new music despite these prison walls. It’s absurd!
Having stated that, he continued, “I’m going to start dumping hot heaps of coal on top of you guys.” I’m releasing the brand-new “Free Tory” playlist, which will be updated weekly with fresh tracks that I’m continuously recording while incarcerated.
“This is the first of its kind, and even though God has already shown me that this is a fleeting moment, it attests to the fact that my spirit, ambition, soul, passion, and destiny are unbreakable no matter where they put me.”
Currently serving a 10-year prison term, Tory Lanez was convicted guilty of shooting Megan Thee Stallion in July 2020 during an intoxicated altercation.
He just submitted a second appeal of his conviction and has consistently maintained his innocence.
